Amazon FSx for Lustre
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VisitAmazon FSx for Lustre vs MooseFS
What both publish
| Fact | Amazon FSx for Lustre | MooseFS |
|---|---|---|
| Company | AWS says Amazon Web Services launched in 2006 and is part of Amazon. | MooseFS is developed and maintained by Saglabs SA, an engineering company headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. |
| Founded | 2006 | 2005 |
| Product | Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully managed, scalable high-performance file storage service for compute-intensive workloads. | MooseFS is distributed storage software that spreads data across multiple servers while presenting it as one resource. |
| Security | All file systems are encrypted at rest; in-transit encryption is available in select regions, and VPC security groups can control network access. | MooseFS 5 adds cluster-wide authentication that gates data access through the master and prevents storage-layer bypass of export permissions. |
Amazon FSx for Lustre plans
- Intelligent-Tiering (elastic) storage class—
- SSD or HDD (provisioned) storage class—
MooseFS plans
- CommunityFree
- Personal€9, paid once
- EnterprisePriced on request
Pick Amazon FSx for Lustre if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick MooseFS if…
Community is positioned for development, evaluation, and smaller deployments; Personal is intended for individual developers, researchers, and home-lab use. Organizations needing commercial support or deployment-specific pricing can request an Enterprise quote.